The journal starts with this: “The first night I was here, I didn?t sleep well.” They are the words of a young Dane County woman, a victim of domestic violence.
“I felt intimidated,” she continued. “I was ashamed that I ended up here.” The woman writing in her journal was staying at the emergency safe house of Domestic Abuse Intervention Services (DAIS), which since 1977 in Dane County has been providing support services to victims of domestic violence and their children.